From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 06:03:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18624 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 06:03:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18616 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 06:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua) Received: from Shevchenko.kiev.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02599; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:59:48 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <34FABB52.719145FE@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 15:59:47 +0200 From: Ruslan Shevchenko Reply-To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty CC: Alex Belits , Eivind Eklund , khansen@njcc.com, "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. References: <199803021208.EAA10350@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Amancio Hasty wrote: > ? On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > ? > ? ? I don't have many comments --- well okay at work we got a 20000 line > ? ? system install thingy all written in shell try debugging that 8) > ? ? ?granted thats one bad extreme? > ? ? > ? ? Traditional scripting languages for unix, sh, csh , tcsh are > ? ? a bit antiquated and downright awkward to work with. > ? ? > ? ? Java is extensible and its supporting structure is intensively being > ? ? worked on . > ? > ? I never said that anything that configures system remotely should be > ? written in shell. Perl is adequate, but I rather prefer C++, which is > ? still more flexible and efficient than java. > > Yeap, I have to agree that C++ is significantly faster than Java for system > configuration 8) > > BTW: you forgot who was going to write the nice X stuff for a C++ based program > that is if we are still talking about a GUI tool . > > Cheers, > Amancio > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message I want only to remember you, that set of C++ classes + GUI Tcl Tool + Tcl/C glue, which allow easy write web-based cgi exist now in alpha version. for more info, look at http://cam.grad.kiev.ua/~rssh/admin/admin.html -- @= //RSSH mailto:Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message